Hassan Habibi

Hassan Habibi (29 January 1937-31 January 2013) was Vice-President of Iran from 1 September 1989 to 11 September 2001, preceding Mohammad-Reza Aref. He served under Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, two liberal presidents.

Biography
Hassan Habibi was born in Tehran, Iran on 29 January 1937, and he studied sociology in France, studying law and sociology. Habibi was involved with Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamist movement while in France, and he wrote the original draft of the Iranian constitution, which would be heavily modified after its November 1979 ratification in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. Habibi became the spokesperson for the revolutionary council and ran against Abolhassan Banisadr in the 1980 presidential election; although Mohammad Beheshti supported Habibi, Habibi won only 10% of the vote in comparison to Banisadr's 70%. Under Abdelkarim Mousavi, he served as Minister of Justice, and he served as Vice-President of Iran under Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami from 1989 to 2001. He retired in 2001, and he died in 2013 at the age of 76.